(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, DECEMBER 3 - An official with the Greek
financial crimes squad SDOE has reportedly said that Margaret
Papandreou, mother of former Prime Minister George Papandreou,
is involved with a deposit of 550 million euros in the Geneva,
Switzerland branch of HSBC, the biggest on a list of 2,059
Greeks with accounts there who haven't been checked for tax
evasion.
She - as GreekReporter remembers - is also the former wife of
the late Andreas Papandreou, a former Prime Minister who was
George Papandreou's father. George Papandreou resigned as
Premier a year ago after two years of ceaseless protests, strike
and riots against austerity measures he imposed on the orders of
international lenders. He later gave up the head of the PASOK
Socialists party his father co-founded. The depositor is
reportedly a civil servant named Maria Panteli, but according to
the Greek newspaper To Vima, Nikolaos Lekkas, the
Manager-Comptroller of SDOE, said that, ''Behind the biggest
deposit on the list is Mrs. Margarita Papandreou.'' The list was
originally given by then French Finance Minister Christine
Lagarde - now the head of the International Monetary Fund, one
of Greece's lenders - to former Finance Minister George
Papanconstantinou, who said it went missing. Now called 'The
Lagarde List,' it details names of Greek depositors that were
included on a larger list of names throughout Europe that was
stolen from the bank by an employee. (ANSAmed).
